When facing a mental health crisis, you can feel alone even though you may not be. A
mental health crisis isn’t just caused by a crisis but a feeling of sadness,
anger, etc, one or the other or both. It is easy to not understand if someone
feels, sad, angry, etc without a reason to a point a person may not say in fear
of someone’s reaction. However,’ the longer the person is alone in
their feelings the more is likely to increase but we would not do any good
forcing things out of them either. Mental illness also be stranger to a point
where the person couldn’t anyway have anything to open up about other than how
they are feeling to a point the why could be unknown, which is the most
concerning risk of suicide, which may or may not be the case but that doesn’t
mean there isn’t a risk if the person has a reason to think or and feel as they
may do.
No one wants to end their lives even though in times of crisis, they may feel as if they do, they just don’t see the way
out of the problem mainly if they fear to tell anyone for whatever reason,
which most likely fears of the reaction of others, not wanting to put on others, etc. https://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/suicide/
You may be thinking how do we know someone is
struggling if they are not telling anyone? The answer to that is really don’t
and we have rights to say one way or the other. It is no win situation, wrong
to think so and wrong to not think so. It doesn’t mean your right or wrong, but
it could be said someone you know, you may see a change in them, you are seeing
as much of them as you used, neither probley is anyone else who knows them. Yes’,
right that proofs nothing they could have left the area, country, or anything.
All the same not knowing is concerning and yet it could be the complete opposite,
where although you may miss them, they could have started a brand-new life and
they are happier than ever, but they are alive. However,’ you don’t know that
and sadly it doesn’t always turn out that way.
However,’ there are positive ways that you may
be able to tell someone is struggling but that doesn’t mean you’re right.
Possible
change of mood.
Avoiding a lot of people.
Trying to be alone as much as possible.
Making a lot of plans
Researching ways to die
Eating and sleep more or less.
Using drugs and alcohol a lot
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/recognizing-suicidal-behavior
The thing could be that some if not most of those
signs they may only show when being alone, which sadly there is no answer to.
However, if they do show, or and start to show
some signs, here are some ways you may be able to help which may vary to the person,
their mental illness, etc https://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/depression-symptoms-and-warning-signs.htm
How
long does a crisis or and a negative feeling last?
There is no
time limit at all, time is a good healer.
Every life matters, suicide affects
the lives of people we know, which matters too but most things in our lives
affect us more so than people without, mental health, disability, and other
problems included.
How long can people cope for?
Some of us may feel unwell or and get better sooner if longer than others.
Where is the way forward, people cannot see the way forward, we just help to
see a way forward.
People find it hard to see if there’s an end to their problem or not, if when,
how etc will it end?
How will they cope live with it if it does not end
Do they have a plan?
Do they access pills, knives, etc, wherever they are?
Do they plan to hurt themselves or end their life at any time?
However,’ finding out brief information may help you help them, but it
may not fully solve their problem.
However,’ it is possible to feel down and suicidal without a problem, do
not judge, you still need to take it seriously and do the same as you would if
they were facing a problem.
Do not do anything you can’t manage to get help from others if needs be.
Let the person know that what is said between you and them is private but
if you are concerned about their and or your health and safety you may need to
involve people from other services etc.
It may not fully make them feel
fully okay with what they were or may have before the problem happened.
They may be on the way to the end
of starting to feel better with further help from other services etc.
No matter how major or minor the person may be stuffing, it’s even hard
if you are talking to someone on the phone but you need to take it seriously,
there is no proof either way what is or and, isn’t happening, contact Stop
suicide.
Most common problems people face may affect them emotionally.
Benefit problems
Relationship breaks -ups
Family problems
Money
Housing
Deaths of people they know
Job and business losses.
How can you try to help?
Steps
in CBT
Find
troubling situations or conditions in your life. ...
Become
aware of your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs about these problems. ...
Find
negative or inaccurate thinking. ...
Reshape
negative or inaccurate thinking.
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I need to take action to keep myself and them safe.
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It is not easy to know how serious the risk is.
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Is the person if they are having suicidal thoughts/ ideas?
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Do they have a plan?
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Do they have access to weapons,
pills in the house, etc?
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Do they plan to hurt themselves at any time?
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/help-for-suicidal-thoughts/
https://sararevealed.blogspot.com/2022/08/mental-health-and-suicide-awareness.html
Different
people face different negative problems at different times in their lives but
there are many problems people face, that we are aware we are not alone such as
the cost-of-living crisis, Covid 19, etc, which seem to be most common while it
is going on.
There
is a huge concern that the cost-of-living crisis may be affecting services that
try to support people, which doesn’t make it easy for anyone but even more for
those who face disabilities, mental illness or and other problems, emotional
problems affect everyone as a whole one way or another.
As
I have said before, mental health services are limited for many reasons whether
it’s cutbacks, Covid 19 etc. It is understood not everyone knows, trained
qulifcated etc in help people want and need, to and help someone the best ways
you can is important, may be you know someone who has worked in the mental
health field. Please try to find help if there’s someone in a situation you
cannot with yourself, peoples’ health and safety is important.
Basic
help for those you may know, friend in need is friend indeed.
Do
they wish to talk to you, if not are they talking to someone?
Those
who don’t know you, are they talking to those they do know, or are they talking
to you.
Concerns
may be they are not opening up to everything, which neither your fault nor
theirs, not just the fact of not knowing someone, mental illness can make
people sensitive, which not always the case, depending on how mild, major, etc
the mental illness is.
Types
of therapy.
My
intentions are not to make everyone counsellors, emotional supporters etc but
my concerns are through cutbacks, covid 19 etc support for mental health maybe
getting less and less for people. This is why written this, piece of writing to
try help people give people basic support for those who may ask for it. However,’
no one knows how long for that professional help is going to limit for so I may
just have added a bit extra information on how to support, which some may come
from and others from research.
Basic
therapy CBT. https://www.maketheconnection.net/resources/what-is-treatment/?gclid=CjwKCAjwmJeYBhAwEiwAXlg0AbpaAZERwo6CZyDiXcL7j27J5-Rr_dWCRqxFl8ZvsXc7isflW16ICBoCUYQQAvD_BwE
Basic coping skills CBT, it doesn’t always
help or and it may not make the person feel 100 percent. Even if you are
concern someone maybe not opening up to everything don’t force it out of them.
The purpose of CBT is a basic way of trying to help people, mainly those face
Anxiety and Depression. However,’ Anxiety and Depression can be strange one for
example, where it can affect peoples’ concentration and even motivation, to someone
not at rest with themselves unless they are doing things, which can vary.
What CBT
is, to try to empower or encourage people
with mental illness, which can be mostly Anxiety and depression to think from
negative to positive.
By finding out what would make them happy,
what they enjoy, trying to talk positives as possible to them, about what like
doing to for example may be reading to
what they like, say their favourite pop start.
It may be that, maybe that normally they enjoy
writing poetry, but they just can’t even forus on that at the moment, where you
could try to empower them to get back into it, but don’t force them. May be
even suggest for them to show you the poetry they used to write, if they do
agree to do that, that could be a way of helping them to may be slowly moving
forward in positive way, but it’s not the case with everyone, but doesn’t make
you bad at your job because everything is down to their choice and how they
feel, if or and when etc. May be asking
how they were feeling when they were writing poetry, or whatever they may used
to enjoy.
The worst thing
you can do is try to encourage / empower them to do things they don’t like so
try to empower / encourage what is positive to them. This may be, hobbies, interests,
careers, their likes etc. Positive talk likely to help a positive mind. A lot
of negative talk brings on mostly negative minds. When thinking and feeling
negative already the person doesn’t need to feel anymore negative.
Anxiety and
Depression can vary so just except anything from everyone, for eg; no two
people say are the same where some people may never forus, which is not them it
is the mental illness so be patient, however’ it is your rights to keep track
much they may helping themselves or may not, keep your manager up dated, he or
she should be trained to know, whether or not the person’s support needs up
dating or not etc.
Some people may
not feel at ease without positives.
Some people can
go from not focusing to focusing.
It is probley
possible for them to go from them to have positive around to negative, you can
try to help them bring that positive back but remember it hasn’t failed if it
doesn’t happen, mental illness can have a huge effect on people.
What is hard but putting yourself their shoes
is good thing, it is not right to judge them one way or the other on what we
don’t have proof on, which is very often the case but if you any concerns
otherwise raise to your manager, when you report the person’s case your manager
should be trained to know what should and shouldn’t happen next and even so
for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_cognitive_therapy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology
https://www.talkspace.com/blog/different-types-therapy-psychotherapy-best/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviour_therapy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_therapy
ttps://careersinpsychology.org/modes-types-therapy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamics
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